James H Sanford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4103447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James H Sanford |
| GIVEN NAMES | James H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanford |
| SIGNATURE | SANFORD J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Flowing Traces
Approaching the Land of Bliss
Wind, waters, stupas, mandalas
C h an contexts, "In most cases, it remained a kind of wishful thinking that did not really threaten the common beliei in an a fte r life (1991, p. 192), that is, in a personal afterlife-or afterlives
Flowing Traces
Flowing Traces
According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical ideas through artistic imagery than it is the development of concepts and expressions in a virtually inseparable unity. By challenging those who consider religion to be the primary phenomenon and art the secondary arena for the apprehension of religious meanings, these essays reveal the collapse of other…
The Abominable Tachikawa Skull Ritual
A LTHOUGH a crucial category in Western religions, heresy is, for a variety of reasons, of much less concern in most Eastern traditions. Further, to the extent that the concept of heresy can be applied in a Hindu or Buddhist context, it is more likely to refer to issues of behavior (orthopraxy) than to those of doctrine or dogma (orthodoxy). Unusual ideas become critical only when they eventuate in actions too bizarre or too disreputable to be ig…
On Understanding Japanese Religion
Shingon
Dogen Kigen
On Understanding Japanese Religion
Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these…
Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology
The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism
Zen and the Art of Dealing with Zen and the (Literary) Arts
Zen-Man Ikkyu
Mandalas of the Heart. Two Prose Works by Ikkyu Sojun
Le moine bouddhiste Zen Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481), poete, calligraphe renomme et auteur d'histoires en prose. Publication en traduction de deux textes en prose du genre kana hogo (sorte de sermon populaire): Amida Hadaka et Bukkigun
Shakuhachi Zen. The Fukeshu and Komuso
Japan’s “laughing mushrooms”
The Abominable Tachikawa Skull Ritual
A LTHOUGH a crucial category in Western religions, heresy is, for a variety of reasons, of much less concern in most Eastern traditions. Further, to the extent that the concept of heresy can be applied in a Hindu or Buddhist context, it is more likely to refer to issues of behavior (orthopraxy) than to those of doctrine or dogma (orthodoxy). Unusual ideas become critical only when they eventuate in actions too bizarre or too disreputable to be ig…
Shingon
Japan’s “laughing mushrooms”
Japan’s “laughing mushrooms”
Shakuhachi Zen. The Fukeshu and Komuso
Mandalas of the Heart. Two Prose Works by Ikkyu Sojun
Le moine bouddhiste Zen Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481), poete, calligraphe renomme et auteur d'histoires en prose. Publication en traduction de deux textes en prose du genre kana hogo (sorte de sermon populaire): Amida Hadaka et Bukkigun
Zen-Man Ikkyu
Zen and the Art of Dealing with Zen and the (Literary) Arts
Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology
The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism
On Understanding Japanese Religion
Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these…
On Understanding Japanese Religion
Shingon
Dogen Kigen
The Abominable Tachikawa Skull Ritual
A LTHOUGH a crucial category in Western religions, heresy is, for a variety of reasons, of much less concern in most Eastern traditions. Further, to the extent that the concept of heresy can be applied in a Hindu or Buddhist context, it is more likely to refer to issues of behavior (orthopraxy) than to those of doctrine or dogma (orthodoxy). Unusual ideas become critical only when they eventuate in actions too bizarre or too disreputable to be ig…
Flowing Traces
Flowing Traces
According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical ideas through artistic imagery than it is the development of concepts and expressions in a virtually inseparable unity. By challenging those who consider religion to be the primary phenomenon and art the secondary arena for the apprehension of religious meanings, these essays reveal the collapse of other…
Wind, waters, stupas, mandalas
C h an contexts, "In most cases, it remained a kind of wishful thinking that did not really threaten the common beliei in an a fte r life (1991, p. 192), that is, in a personal afterlife-or afterlives
Approaching the Land of Bliss
Flowing Traces
Japanese History and Culture (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Buddhism (4 works) · Literature (4 works)